Duerer´s grave
Duerer´s grave
1849
"The print depicts the Dürer grave—bearing the current number L6-649—situated in front of a tall yew tree in St. John’s Cemetery (St. Johannisfriedhof). Like other graves dating from the era of the Free Imperial City, it consists of a tall sandstone slab. This standardization was intended to prevent individual graves from standing out through distinctive designs.
The Latin inscription on the bronze plaque of the lectern-style superstructure was composed by Willibald Pirckheimer. Joachim von Sandrart, the renowned founder of the academy, acquired the grave and donated additional inscriptions, as well as a hymn of praise to the artist executed on a brass plate. Rising behind the arcade are the rectory—relocated in the mid-19th century from in front of the cemetery wall to Lindengasse—and the choir of St. John’s Church. To the right, behind the trees, stands the Steinschreiberhaus, a building dating from the Baroque period."
Dr. Silke Colditz-Heusl
Quoted from: *Der Johannisfriedhof in historischen Ansichten* [St. John’s Cemetery in Historical Views],
*500 Jahre Friedhof St. Johannis* [500 Years of St. John’s Cemetery], exhibition catalog, Förderverein Kulturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg e.V. [Association of Friends of the Nuremberg Museum of Cultural History], 2018, pp. 102–103.
Print from: *Vollständige Sammlung aller Baudenkmale, Monumente und anderer Merkwürdigkeiten Nürnberg’s* [Complete Collection of All Architectural Monuments, Memorials, and Other Curiosities of Nuremberg], featuring steel engravings based on original drawings by Johann Georg Wolff (painter and teacher at the Royal Trade and Art School in Nuremberg), first edition 1849 et seq., with descriptions by Dr. Friedrich Mayer; Vol. 1 with plates 1–50, Vol. 2 with plates 51–100; here: Plate 90.
photo 2018, Theo Noll
Duerer´s grave
1849
Detail view
"The print depicts the Dürer grave—bearing the current number L6-649—situated in front of a tall yew tree in St. John’s Cemetery (St. Johannisfriedhof). Like other graves dating from the era of the Free Imperial City, it consists of a tall sandstone slab. This standardization was intended to prevent individual graves from standing out through distinctive designs.
The Latin inscription on the bronze plaque of the lectern-style superstructure was composed by Willibald Pirckheimer. Joachim von Sandrart, the renowned founder of the academy, acquired the grave and donated additional inscriptions, as well as a hymn of praise to the artist executed on a brass plate. Rising behind the arcade are the rectory—relocated in the mid-19th century from in front of the cemetery wall to Lindengasse—and the choir of St. John’s Church. To the right, behind the trees, stands the Steinschreiberhaus, a building dating from the Baroque period."
Dr. Silke Colditz-Heusl
Quoted from: *Der Johannisfriedhof in historischen Ansichten* [St. John’s Cemetery in Historical Views],
*500 Jahre Friedhof St. Johannis* [500 Years of St. John’s Cemetery], exhibition catalog, Förderverein Kulturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg e.V. [Association of Friends of the Nuremberg Museum of Cultural History], 2018, pp. 102–103.
Print from: *Vollständige Sammlung aller Baudenkmale, Monumente und anderer Merkwürdigkeiten Nürnberg’s* [Complete Collection of All Architectural Monuments, Memorials, and Other Curiosities of Nuremberg], featuring steel engravings based on original drawings by Johann Georg Wolff (painter and teacher at the Royal Trade and Art School in Nuremberg), first edition 1849 et seq., with descriptions by Dr. Friedrich Mayer; Vol. 1 with plates 1–50, Vol. 2 with plates 51–100; here: Plate 90.
photo 2018, Theo Noll
Duerer´s grave
1849
Detail view with Duerer´s grave
photo 2018, Theo Noll
"The print depicts the Dürer grave—bearing the current number L6-649—situated in front of a tall yew tree in St. John’s Cemetery (St. Johannisfriedhof). Like other graves dating from the era of the Free Imperial City, it consists of a tall sandstone slab. This standardization was intended to prevent individual graves from standing out through distinctive designs.
The Latin inscription on the bronze plaque of the lectern-style superstructure was composed by Willibald Pirckheimer. Joachim von Sandrart, the renowned founder of the academy, acquired the grave and donated additional inscriptions, as well as a hymn of praise to the artist executed on a brass plate. Rising behind the arcade are the rectory—relocated in the mid-19th century from in front of the cemetery wall to Lindengasse—and the choir of St. John’s Church. To the right, behind the trees, stands the Steinschreiberhaus, a building dating from the Baroque period."
Dr. Silke Colditz-Heusl
Quoted from: *Der Johannisfriedhof in historischen Ansichten* [St. John’s Cemetery in Historical Views],
*500 Jahre Friedhof St. Johannis* [500 Years of St. John’s Cemetery], exhibition catalog, Förderverein Kulturhistorisches Museum Nürnberg e.V. [Association of Friends of the Nuremberg Museum of Cultural History], 2018, pp. 102–103.
Print from: *Vollständige Sammlung aller Baudenkmale, Monumente und anderer Merkwürdigkeiten Nürnberg’s* [Complete Collection of All Architectural Monuments, Memorials, and Other Curiosities of Nuremberg], featuring steel engravings based on original drawings by Johann Georg Wolff (painter and teacher at the Royal Trade and Art School in Nuremberg), first edition 1849 et seq., with descriptions by Dr. Friedrich Mayer; Vol. 1 with plates 1–50, Vol. 2 with plates 51–100; here: Plate 90.
